PTP Watch - FINAL EDITION
#8, the ASSASSINATION Edition, nailed it.
Welcome to the FINAL installment of PTP Watch, wherein we CONFIRM that we actually DID witness the Pareto Tipping Point leading to mass awareness!
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So, all’s well that ends well: The PTP came and went without mushroom clouds. In case you’re wondering about the FOUR MONTH delay…yes, I was waiting for the outcome of the U.S. Presidential election - a landslide win - which absolutely confirmed my suspicion that the July 13 failed public execution (mafia hit) on President Trump was indeed the Pareto Tipping Point.
Also, a catastrophic hardware failure in August took inordinate time and effort to recover from, which really quite sucked.
Prelude
The previous article in this series, published back on July 15, started off thus:
As I begin to type this, it’s now ‘Event Horizon + 36 hours.’ Much has been written about the assassination attempt on President Trump…
There’s no need for me to rehash what we already know about The Event…and speculation is mostly pointless when the investigating authorities are known liars.
[Edit: we still dunno nuffin]
Which brings me to the point of this article: was The Event in fact the much-anticipated ‘Discontinuity Event’ which precipitates the Pareto Tipping Point of mass cultural awakening?
Considering that I’ve been writing about the PTP for almost 9 MONTHS, I’m only now realizing that I have never addressed exactly HOW we will know the PTP when we see it — meaning, will it be OBVIOUS or not?
So, let’s proceed under the assumption that the PTP will NOT be obvious except in retrospect.
Rewind
If you’d like to re-familiarize yourself with the original PTP article, it’s here:
Full graphic:
From the article (note that the use of the term meme is in the generic sense of the word idea):
The memes I listed include:
the Epstein / Maxwell client list, STILL not disclosed
the Biden Crime Family as the tip-of-the-iceberg of international RICO pillaging
big pharma’s culpability in mass death and suffering from mRNA injections
the human trafficking into Euro-American nations of incompatible peoples
the billions spent on made-for-TV
genocideswars being staged in the Ukraine and the Levant, all just a money-laundering shenaniganzaAs you can see, none of the above have led to the PTP yet.
To use a common phrase: ‘Trump assassination attempt’ was not on my bingo card.
The Signal
And there you have it: ‘the meme’ was Donald J. Trump’s re-election campaign.
The PopCultureLLC™ legacy media complex was desperately concealing the actual level of support for his campaign, maligning Trump and his supporters at maximum volume.
The ‘tolerant left,’ which claims to oppose ‘hate speech,’ was blatantly, hypocritically hating on ‘extreme MAGA Republican’ ‘racist’ ‘far right-wing’ ‘white nationalist’ ‘misogynist’ ‘domestic extremist’ ORDINARY AMERICANS. The Silent Majority were ceremoniously swept outside the Overton Window, along with their preferred candidate.
So the U.S. electorate was waiting for a Signal that it was finally OK to ‘come out of the MAGA closet’ and openly rally around their candidate, in complete disregard for PopCultureLLC™ shrieking in their faces 24/7 that they were a ‘threat to our democracy.’
President Trump’s last-second head turn, a self-described ‘miracle,’ was that Signal; and that Signal became the Pareto Tipping Point.
Many Americans, Grinches who were on-the-fence about voting for Trump, or even opposed to him, had what we might call a ‘Grinch Moment:’
Nothing evokes a visceral response quite like witnessing a mortality event - even if it’s just a NEAR-death experience. Millions of people immediately empathized with him, and it gently allowed them to open their minds (many for the first time):
“he’s just human, like me…maybe he’s not such a bad guy after all.”
Of course, some people seem incapable of empathy:
The youths above most certainly voted Democrat, if they are even old enough to vote.
Thus were the battle lines drawn for the 2024 U.S. Presidential election.
Elon Musk took to the streets to encourage the Silent Majority to “be loud and proud:”
More from PTP Watch 8:
This may be one of the most important factors leading to mass awakening — make it obvious that the PopCultureLLC™ legacy media is (and has been) lying to the citizenry. Make them state publicly that in order to ‘get Trump,’ it’s OK to lie.
[Edit: or murder him]
Studies confirm that admitting one has been ‘played’ is among the hardest things for people to do. The small percentage of folks who still trust the legacy media are ripe for a giant smack-upside-the-head; and when trust is broken, it’s very hard to repair.
The response to The Event by the PopCultureLLC™ legacy media, and internet-rando unhinged leftists, was the ‘giant smack-upside-the-head’ that the Silent Majority needed in order to unite in opposition. Thanks in part to cheerleaders like Musk, Scott Pressler and Charlie Kirk, Americans used that energy to deliver the greatest electoral comeback in U.S. history - a ‘mandate’ that is ‘too big to rig’ - although there were / are plenty of shenanigans involved…over a week later, certain (expected) localities still can’t announce final totals.
No matter - the election outcome was ‘the meme that broke the Overton Window.’ Trump supporters delivered an unprecedented comeback ‘trifecta’ of President, Senate and House Of Representatives, ensuring that ‘America First’ is on the menu at least until the 2026 mid-term elections. However, my sense is that if this truly is the Pareto Tipping Point, we have witnessed the end of leftism in America.
The legacy media has been disgraced and neutered.
Academia is widely acknowledged to be ‘a vast wasteland.’
PopCultureLLC™ is retreating from its relentless trans / DEI crusade.
The left must now own its economic and immigration policy disasters.
It’s said that sometimes, it takes hitting ‘rock bottom’ to cause a change in direction. From my vantage point here on The Sofa, as a 19th Century Refugee, life in the U.S. cannot get worse, except for complete collapse. Therefore, in my opinion, 2024 will be remembered as ‘the year of the soft bounce.’
So here we are, on the other side of the Pareto Tipping Point. And there were no mushroom clouds. All it took was one bullet - that missed.
In Conclusion
Here on a beautiful summer Monday afternoon, my observation from The Sofa is that the failed assassination of President Trump was not an obvious PTP.
[Edit: it wasn’t, until it was]
However, what does it reveal if the Urban Micromanager Caste (in this case the ‘Deep State’) is so afraid of a second Trump Administration that they might resort to the ultimate taboo (murder) in order to remove the threat?
DESPERATION.
At this point they have painted themselves into a corner:
“It’s OK for us to betray everything we stand for to ‘get Trump,’ but we’ll only do it this one time, for this one guy, and then never again. Honest. Pinky swear!”
Marxism. And it always leads here:
And so ends the Pareto Tipping Point Watch. I knew it was coming, but didn’t dare to hope it would be so calm yet so satisfying. America was at the precipice, and now there’s nowhere to go but up.
Thanks as always for reading, and STAY SKEPTICAL.
I think we still need you in the fight, but I understand. Rock on!
I am remaining skeptical. Carry on Doc Skeptic!